Theme of presentation: Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish introduces Smart Body Sensor Objects (SBSOs)
including their Networking and Internetworking. A few use cases including the relevant privacy
and protocol requirements are discussed. General usage and deployment etiquette along with
the relevant Regulatory implications are then pointed out.

Details of presentation: Wearable and implantable body sensors for health, vital organ/entities, etc.
monitoring, self and surrounding audio and video recording, augmenting the reality, etc. are.
rapidly becoming utility devices. Making these devices smart and capable of networking and
Internetworking opens up a whole new world of privacy-invading Internet innovations in the
increasingly mobile, connected and analytics-driven society. Handheld device and machine-tomachine
driven any-area and any-technology networking will change humanity and society
forever. Smartness can be incorporated in the Body Sensor Objects (BSOs) by embedding (a)
virtualization, (b) predictive analytics, and (c) proactive computing and communications
capabilities. In this talk, Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish introduces Smart Body Sensor Objects (SBSOs)
including their Networking and Internetworking. A few use cases including the relevant privacy
and protocol requirements are discussed. General usage and deployment etiquette along with
the relevant Regulatory implications are then pointed out.

Theme of presentation: The importance of sensing and measurement in the world of robotics, and the future research and development of sensors in this area – MEMS, biological sensors etc.

Details of presentation: There was a mesmerizing presentation on the said topic over a period of two hours. All the participants were engrossed with the wonderful lecture delivered by Prof. G. Sen Gupta.

Details of presentation: Prof. Iti Saha Misra, CoMSoC Chairperson of Kolkata Section, welcome Prof. Pradeep Ray to the venue at 11.00 am. There were 104 pre-registered participants for the program consisting of undergraduate engineering students from the Departments of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering and Applied Electronics and Instrumentation from Jadavpur University itself along with other neighbouring Institutes (Heritage Institute of Technology, Narula Institute of Technology, Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology etc.). Apart from that large section of the audience was current research scholars and faculties from various institutes. There were 10 IEEE members and 25 student members.

Theme of presentation: Most of communication and microwave specialization students have participated the lecture meeting. It was very much beneficial for the students to get the real picture of satellite communication in Indian Scenarios.

Details of presentation: The future Internet, or the Internet of Things and the Internet of Everything, whatever we have now seems inadequate. So the concept of Fog computing comes which brings the concept of using mobile devices, home gateways, set top boxes as computing devices. In this talk, the concepts of Big Data, the history of the Grid and Cloud and the rise of Fog computing as a new paradigm along with some research cases that are actively pursued at TCS Innovation Labs Kolkata are delivered nicely by Dr. Mukherjee.

Participants : 50, UG and PG students, Research scholars

Dr. Arijit Mukherjee delivering his lecture

2. Security and Privacy in IoT
- August 29, 2014

Speaker: Arijit Ukil (TCS Innovation Lab, Kolkata)

Venue: Room No T-3-7, ETCE Department , Jadavpur University

Details of presentation: IoT (Internet of Things) systems like smart energy management expose sensor data that sense human activity, containing private information. Such fine-grained sensor data also makes different important 3rd party applications like smart grid control, dynamic pricing, elderly monitoring possible. The fear of privacy breach (“spying inside home”) impedes practical deployment of such applications and its acceptability. Unlike data and network security research, data privacy research is at its nascent stage. Research activities on smart meter data privacy is gaining pace, even governmental agencies are engaged to issue guidelines regarding protection of consumer privacy. In this talk, particular focus on the description of IoT data privacy problem, its impact and current solution on privacy preservation of smart energy managementtion of smart energy management systems have been covered.